Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud

Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (1934-16 June 2012) was Minister of the Interior of Saudi Arabia from 11 October 1975 to 16 June 2012, succeeding Fahd of Saudi Arabia and preceding Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al-Saud.

Biography
Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud was born in 1934, the 23rd son of Ibn Saud and one of his seven children with Hussa bint Ahmed al-Sudairi. al-Saud served as governor of several provinces before King Khalid I of Saudi Arabia appointed him as Minister of the Interior of Saudi Arabia in 1975. In December 1994, hundreds of terror arrests were carried out, but he insisted that the 15 Saudi 9/11 hijackers were Zionist dupes, and he took insufficient action against terrorists. He ordered for Saudi women to be given IDs instead of being registered in the names of their fathers or husbands, one of his few achievements. Otherwise, his tenure was unsuccessful, with terrorists sponsoring attacks on expatriate housing compounds, oil infrastructure, and industrial facilities from 2003 to 2006. Nayef died of cardiac problems in 2012.